Break down data silos: How integrated analytics reveals marketing impact

Channel dashboards don’t tell the whole story. Connecting paid media, analytics, and CRM data reveals demand before it ...
InfoWorld

The revenge of SQL: How a 50-year-old language reinvents itself

From the browser to the back end, the ‘boring’ choice is exciting again. We look at three trends converging to bring SQL back ...
diginomica

Enterprises pour billions into data lakehouses. So why can't the business use the damn things?

Alteryx is pushing analytics into the data lakehouse rather than pulling data out. Chief Product Officer Ben Canning explains why governance and business user access remain the real barriers to ...

SQL Server 2016 announced as SQL Server 2005 support nears its end

For those of you still using SQL Server 2005, Microsoft will completely end support on April 12th 2016. You can head over here to check out upgrade guidelines, download migration tools, and read more ...
IEEE

EBA-SQL: A Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework with Entity-Based Analysis for Text-to-SQL

Abstract: The in-context learning capability of Large Language Models has achieved significant success in text-to-SQL task. Most existed approaches generally adopt a straightforward three-stage ...
IEEE

SQL Injection in LLM-Generated Queries: Systematic Analysis of Detection Gaps and Security Risks

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are being woven into software systems at a remarkable pace. When these systems include a back-end database, LLM integration opens new attack surfaces for SQL ...
Reuters

Microsoft rolls out initiative to limit data-center power costs, water use impact

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to curb water usage at its U.S. data centers and limit the impact on the general population from any potential ...
NPR

AI data centers use a lot of electricity. How it could affect your power bill

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...
Barron's

Technical Analysis: Use Strong Stock Market Days to Sell, Charts Suggest

As many market participants anticipate a year-end rally, there are mounting indications that such an outcome is far from assured. Investor positioning appears increasingly stretched, with multiple ...
Government Technology

What Is Synthetic Data, and How Is Government Using It?

As AI becomes more common and decisions more data-driven, a new(ish) form of information is on the rise: synthetic data. And some proponents say it promises more privacy and other vital benefits. Data ...
Wall Street Journal

Data-Center Power Use to Become Major Antitrust Issue

The huge demand for energy to power data centers will be a key focus for antitrust regulators in the future, a former top official at the U.S. Justice Department’s trustbusting division said.
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Data centers are proliferating in Virginia and a blind man in Baltimore is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills. The Maryland city is well over an hour’s drive from the northern ...